The paintings entitled ‘Spectral Presents’ give form to the ethereal. These vibrantly coloured and textured ghostly forms appear to have no real substance beyond eyes and mouths, taking the simplicity of a pared back identity to its limits. Elemental in their ‘presences’, the phantasms hover on the border of visibility: seeming to emerge into view - or perhaps in the process of disappearing.
Celestial Family, 2024. Acrylic on canvas. 9 works in group, 135 x 120 cm. Exhibited in solo exhibition 'Strange Company', 2024. Celestial Family suggests an otherworldly universe inhabited by an ensemble of shadowy, creaturely and at times, demonic, forms.
Installation view: Celestial Family, 2024
Spectral Presents (Pink), 2022. Acrylic & watercolour on canvas, 12 elements, exhibited as a group. 25 x 30 cm each work. ‘Spectral Presents’ give form to the ethereal. These vibrantly coloured and textured ghostly forms appear to have no real substance beyond eyes and mouths, taking the simplicity of a pared back identity to its limits.
Installation view: Spectral Presents (Pink), 2022.
Detail: Spectral Presents (Pink), 2022.
Spectral Presents (Yellow), 2022. Acrylic on canvas, 10 elements. Exhibited in solo show 'Kindred' at Arusha Gallery, Edinburgh, 2022. Elemental in their ‘presences’, these phantasms hover on the border of visibility: seeming to emerge into view - or perhaps in the process of disappearing.
Detail: Spectral Presents (Pink), 2022.
Installation detail: Spectral Presents (Yellow), 2022. Acrylic on canvas, 10 elements. 25 x 30 cm each canvas.
detail: Spectral Presents (Yellow), 2022
Wraith Diptych, 2022. Acrylic on canvas, 30 x 52 cm. Exhibited in 'Assembly' Contemporary British Painting at Rye Creative Centre, 2024.
detail: Spectral Presents (Yellow), 2022
Family Embers, acrylic on canvas, 2023. Grouping of 4 works, each 25 x 30 cm. Exhibited in Daisy Chains & Summer Rain, ASC Gallery, London 2024.